7.2 Travel expenses

Netherlands
Commentary

If an employee uses their own means of transport to travel for work, the employer can pay a tax-free allowance up to a maximum of EUR 0.23 per kilometre (2024) (belastingdienst.nl; ondernemersplein). It does not matter if the employee uses the means of transport for commuting to work (or to go home for lunch) or other business trips.

This is a targeted exemption, and the employer can designate this allowance as final-levy wage.

However, the tax-free allowance of EUR 0.23 per kilometre does not apply to:

  1.  

    •     detour kilometres driven for private reasons eg to take a child to the nursery

  2.  

    •     a reimbursement for (parts of) trips for which

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